Plural pole number induction motor



April 22, 1947. J, w s 2,419,268

PLURAL POLE NUMBER INDUCTION MOTOR Original Filed NOV. 27, 1943 2 Sheets-Sheet l MGM Lm INVENTOR BY ATTORNEY April 22, 1947. J. D. LEWIS PLURAL POLE NUMBER INDUCTION MOT OR Original Filed Nov. 2'? 1943 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 mi zi w +Tz +Tw+TzTm Tz Tm ATTORNEY LM INVENTOR UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE PLURAL POLE NUMBER INDUCTION MOTOR Jacob Daniel Lewis, Yonkers, N. Y., assignor to Otis Elevator Company, New York, N. Y., a corporation of New Jersey Original application November 27, 1943, Serial No.

512,023. Divided and this application December 7, 1944, Serial No. 567,086

7 Claims.

The invention relates to electric motors, especially for hoists.

This application is a division of application Serial Number 512,023 of Jacob Daniel Lewis, filed November 27, 1943.

It is desirable in certain types of hoisting installations such as cargo winches that the hoisting motor may be operated at different speeds. There are certain advantages in utilizing polywindings of a polyphase multi-speed induction motor embodying the invention; and

Figure 2 is a developed diagram, for half the circumference of th rotor, of the rotor windings of the motor of Figure 1.

Referring first to Figure 1, the motor illustrated is a three speed, three phase induction motor. Thes different speeds are obtained by exciting the stator to provide different numbers phase alternating current motors as hoisting moof field poles. This is effected by means of two tors, especially for installations of this character. stator windings, one a two speed winding desig- One object of the invention is to provide a nated MST for providing excitation for normal polyphase multi-speed induction motor especially speed operation when contacts NS I NS2, NS3 and for hoists. NS4 are closed and for fast speed operation when The invention will be described as applied to a contacts FSE, PS2 and FS3 are closed, and the polyphase multi-speed induction motor especially other a single speed winding designated MSS for suitable for a cargo winch hoisting motor. providing excitation for slow speed operation In the embodiment illustrated, the motor is prowhen contacts SS! and SS2 are closed. The rotor vided with three operating speeds, namely, noris provided with a phase wound winding desigmal speed, fast speed and slow speed. The stator nated MR? and a squirrel cage winding desigof the motor is arranged to provide excitation for nated MRS. The phase wound winding is conthree different pole numbers, one for normal nected through slip rings I02, I03 and I04 and speed, a second for fast speed and the remaining brushes BI, E2 and B3 to star connected rotor refor slow speed. This is effected by providing two sistance RR. windings on the stator, one for a high number of Referring to Figure 2, an embodiment of the poles for slow speed operation and the other arinvention will be described in which the motor ranged to provide either a number of poles for operates as an eight pole motor to provide nornormal speed operation or a lower number of mal operating speed, as a four pole motor to propoles for fast speed operation. The rotor is provide fast operating speed and a thirty-six pole vided with two windings, one a definit pitch motor to provide slow operating speed. The squirrel cage winding and the other phase wound. phase wound winding is shown at the top of Fig- The latter winding is wound for the number of ure 2 and the squirrel cage winding is shown bepoles of stator excitation for normal speed. It is low the phase wound winding, only half of each connected through slip rings to rotor resistance winding being shown. The stator poles under which may be varied to control the torque of the th different conditions of excitation are indimotor. Th pitch of the squirrel cage winding cated at the bottom of the figure. N designates is such that it serves as the rotor winding for north poles while S designates south poles. The both fast speed stator excitation and slow speed poles for the different pole numbers are represtator excitation. The number of poles or stator sented by the spaces between the short vertical excitation are so correlated that zero or negligible do lines it. The poles for the different excitations are indicated in three rows, the upper of which is for four pole excitation and is designated 4?, the middle of which is for thirty-six pole excitaticn and is designated 3GP and the lower of which is for eight pole excitation and is designated 8P.

The phase wound winding of the rotor is an eight pole three phase winding illustrated as arranged in eighty-four slots, distributed in three and four slots per phase per pole. The slots are designated by numbers, namely, I, 2, 3, etc. The

phase windings are differentiated by heavy, light and dot-dash lines. Each phase winding is a wave winding of substantially full pitch, the sides of the coils being spaced ten and eleven slots. Each slot contains the conductor forming one side of one coil and the conductor forming the other side of another, the two conductors per slot being arranged one on top of the other to form a double layer winding. The phase windings are respectively connected to slip rings Hi2, Hi3 and I04 by leads I05, 106 and a. lead not shown owing to the fact that only half the rotor winding is illustrated. At their other ends the phase windings are star connected as indicated by the leads H2! and [08 connected to wire III), the lead connecting the other phase winding not being shown because of only half the rotor winding being illustrated. This phase wound winding of the retor serves during operation of the motor on eight pole excitation.

The bars or conductors l l l of the squirrel cage winding are arranged in the same slots as the conductors of the phase wound winding, the slots being designated as above :by the numbers I, 2, 3, etc. There is one conductor per slot for the squirrel cage winding, making with the phase wound conductors a total of three conductors per slot. The squirrel cage conductors are positioned in the slots on the outside of the phase wound conductors. At one end of the rotor the squirrel cage conductors are joined to an end ring H2. At the other end of th rotor, conductors spaced twenty-one slots are connected in pairs by end connectors H3 to provide a definite pitch winding. In order to form the conductors and their end connectors as units and to provide one conductor per slot, like sides of these units are positioned in alternate slots.

The squirrel cage winding of the rotor serves during operation of the motor both on four pole and thirty-six pole excitation. By forming the coils as units, in which the conductors have end connectors with the connected conductors spaced twenty-one slots or one quarter the circumference of the rotor, with four pole excitation, i. e., a total of 720 electrical degrees, these conductors are spaced 180 electrical degrees to provide afull pitch winding. This may also be seen by tracing the circuits through the conductors under the four pole excitation indicated at the bottom of the sheet. Taking the conductor in slot 2 for example, it will be seen that at the instant of excitation indicated, it is under a north pole, whereas the conductor in slot 23 to which it is joined is at a corresponding point under a south pole. Similarly, the conductors of any other connected pair have corresponding positions under opposite poles. With thirty-six pole excitation, the stator has 6480 electrical degrees so that the connected conductors are spaced 1620 electrical degrees which is the equivalent of 180 electrical degrees. Thus again, a full pitch winding is provided. This may also be seen by tracing the circuits through the conductors under the indicated thirty-six pole excitation. Taking again the conductor in slot 2, it is under a north pole whereas the conductor in slot 23 is at a corresponding point under a south pole. Likewise, the conductors of any other connected pair have corresponding positions under opposite poles. Thus, under both four pole and thirty-six pole excitations, the voltages induced in the connected conductors act cumulatively. This arrangement of connections also results in a low resistance path through the end ring under thirty-six pole excitation, whereas 4 under four pole excitation the resistance of the end ring is high.

Inasmuch as the connected conductors of the squirrel winding are spaced one quarter the circumference of the rotor, they are spaced 360 'trical degrees with eight pole excitation. This ay be seen by tracing the circuits through conductors under the eight pole excitation. the conducto. in slots 2 and 23, c nductors at corresponding points north poles. Likewise, the conductors of other co": pair have corresponding poles. Inasmuch as conors are under the influen e of like induced in these conductors 1, ch o ier. Thus, under eight pole there no current flow in the squirrel Winding. herea there i no current flow in the squirrel cage winding with eight pole excitation, there is no current flow in the phase wound winding h four pole or thirty-six pole excitation. On roar pole excitation th conductors forming sides of each coil of the phase wound winding are spaced electrical degrees from each other and 15 ele J ical degrees from the corresponding conductors of the next succeeding coil. Consequently the voltages induced in the corresponding conductors of adjacent coils neutralize each south les respectively, and since the circuits through these conductors are in the same direction. the voltage induced in these conductors neutr .9 each other. The is true of the hcavy Lie) conductors in slots 13 and 34. Thus he voltages induced in the con- .uctors in sl 23 and neutralize respectively the vo induced the conductors in slots 2 and results: 3., Voltage indu ed in these two coils zero. 1. for each succeed? pair of coils so that the volts phase wound winding during four p" e exc tati n is zero.

Similarly, under *rty-six pole excitation, as the conductors for g the sides of each coil of the phase wounsi winding are spaced 1520 elec- 21 degrees, the equivalent of 180 electrical from corresponding conductors of he next succeeding coil, the voltages induced in hose coiuctors neutralize each other. Thus the voltages induced in succeeding coils neutralize each other so that there is no voltage induced in the phase wound winding. This may be seen by tracing the circuits through the conductors with the thirty-six pole excitation indicated. Taking again the (heavy line) conductor in slot 2 and its connected (heavy line) conductor in slot 23, these conductors are at corresponding points under north and south poles respectively, and since the circuits through these conductors are in the same dction. the voltages induced in these conduc tors neutralize each other. The is true of the (hea y dott d line) conductors n slots l3 Thu the voltages induced in the specified conductors neutralize each other, the resultant voltage induced in the coils formed by these conductors is zero. This condition is dupli- Gated for each succeeding pair of cells so that the s voltage induced in the phase wound winding during thirty-six pole excitation is zero.

It is to be understood that the speeds of the motor are dependent upon' the particular application and that the ratios of the various speeds may vary. In a .gement of motor which has been described, variation of speed ratios may be effected by varying the ratios of pole numbers. By utilizing ratios or pole numbers such that the number oi poles for slow speed excitation is an odd multiple of that for "est speed excitation but not a multiple of that for normal speed excite-- tion and that the number of poles for normal speed excitation is even multiple of that for fast speed excitation, the phase wound rotor winding will be effective only for normal speed excitation and the squirrel cage winding will be effective only for fast and slow speed excitations. Although in the optimum arrangement full pitch rotor windings are provided, one or both windings may be fractional in pitch so long as this does not cause objectionable current how in the winding when operating on the excitation for the other winding. The different pole numbers of stator excitation may be obtained in ways other than that described. Motors of other numbers of phases may be employed and either star or mesh connections may be utilized. The motor may be utilized for various types of hoists and may also be used for other types of industrial applications.

Thus, as many changes could be made in the above construction and many apparently widely different embodiments of this invention could be made without departing from the scope thereof, it is intended that all matter contained in the above description or shown in the accompanying drawings shall be interpreted as illustrative and not in a limiting sense.

What is claimed is:

1. A three-phase multi-speed induction motor q comprising; a stator; windings on the stator adapted to provide excitation of a certain number of pairs of poles for fast speed operation, of a higher number of pairs of poles for medium. speed operation. which is an even multiple of said certain number of poles or or a number of pairs of poles for slow speed operation w ich is greater than but indivisible by said higher number of pairs of poles and is an odd multiple of said certain number of pairs of poles; a rotor; a winding wound on the rotor for said medium speed opera-- tion; and a definite pitch squirrel cage wi ing on the rotor for both said fast speed and said slow speed operation.

2. A polyphase multi speed induction motor comprising; a stator; windings on the stator for providing excitation for three different numbers of pairs of poles; a rotor; a winding on said rotor effective during excitation for one of said num-- bers of pairs of poles; and a second winding on the rotor effective during excitation for either of the other of said numbers of pairs of poles.

3. A polyphase multi-speed induction motor comprising; a stator; twospeed polyphase winding on the stator; a single speed polyphase winding on the stator; a rotor; a winding on said rotor for cooperation with said two speed winding for one operating speed; and a second wind-- ing on the rotor for cooperation with either said two speed winding for the other operating speed or with said single speed winding.

4. A polyphase multi-s eed induction motor comprising; a stator; a polyphase winding on the stator adapted to be connected to provide excitation of either of two different numbers of pairs of poles; a second polyphase winding on the stator adapted to provideexcitation of a third number of pairs of poles; a rotor; a Winding on said rotor effective during excitation by the first named polyphase winding when connected for excitation of one pole number; and a second winding on the rotor effective during excitation by said first named polyphase winding when connected for excitation of the other pole number, or during excitation by said second polyphase winding.

5. A polyphase multi-speed induction motor comprising; a stator; a polyphase winding on the stator adapted to be connected to provide excitation of either of two diiferent numbers of pairs of poles, one of which is an even multiple of the other; a second polyphase winding on the stator adapted to provide excitation of a higher number of pairs of poles which is an odd multiple of the lower of said different number of pairs of poles but is indivisible by the higher of said difierent number of pairs of poles; a rotor; a winding on said rotor effective for the excitation of said higher of said difierent numbers of pairs of poles; and a second winding on the rotor effective for either the excitation of said lower of said difierent number of pairs of poles or the excitation of said higher number of pairs of poles.

6. A three-phase multi-speed induction motor comprising; a stator; a three-phase winding on the stator adapted to provide excitation of a certain number of pairs of poles for medium speed operation or excitation of a lower number of pairs of poles for fast speed operation, with said certain number an even multiple of said lower numbar; a second three-phase winding on the stator adapted to provide excitation of a number of pairs of poles for slow speed operation which is greater than but indivisible by the number of pairs of poles for medium speed operation and is an odd multiple of the number of pairs of poles for fast speed operation; a rotor; a three-phase winding on the rotor of said certain number of pairs of poles for said medium speed operation, the coils of said phase wound winding being substantially full pitch; and a squirrel cage winding on the rotor for both said fast speed and said slow speed operation, said squirrel cage winding having conductors on the rotor, an end ring at one end of the rotor connecting said conductors, and jumpers at the other end of the rotor connecting in pairs conductors spaced to form substantially full pitch coils for said lower number of pairs of poles excitation.

7. A three-phase multi-speed induction motor comprising; a stator; a three-phase winding on the stator adapted to provide excitation of a certain number of pairs of poles for medium speed operation or excitation of a lower number of pairs of poles for fast speed operation, with said certain number an even multiple of said lower number; a second three-phase winding on the stator adapted to provide excitation of a number of pairs of poles for slow speed operation which is greater than but indivisible by the number of pairs of poles for medium speed operation an odd multiple of the number of pairs of poles for fast speed operation; a rotor having a certain number of slots; a three-phase winding on the rotor of said certain number of pairs of poles for said medium speed operation, the coils of said phase wound winding being substantially full pitch for said certain number of pairs of poles excitation, and each slot containing one side of one coil and the other side of another coil on top thereof to form a double layer wind- JACOB DANIEL LEWIS.

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